Commercial Service
In 1947 the Maritime Commission sold Alpine to American Mail Lines, who registered the vessel in Portland, Oregon and renamed her India Mail. She continued in service with American Mail until 1965, when she was sold to Hudson Waterways Corporation, who re-registered her in New York and renamed her Transwestern.
In 1969 the ship was sold again, this time to the Buckeye Steamship Company of Delaware who dubbed her Buckeye Pacific. In 1971 the ship changed hands yet again, this time becoming the property of the Empire Steamship Company of Panama.
In 1971 the vessel changed hands for the last time, sold to Taiwanese interests for scrapping. Her final passage was to the scrapyard at Kaohsiung, where she arrived on 7 December of the same year.
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